The guided-missile destroyer Spruance is en route to Key West, Florida, where the 510-foot warship will be commissioned before it heads to its homeport of San Diego, says the Navy. Commissioning is set for October 1st, and the ship will leave for the West Coast two days later. Spruance, the 61st Burke-class destroyer, is named after Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, the famed World War II naval commander who oversaw such pivotal fights as the battles for Midway and the Philippine Sea.

*The USS San Diego will arrive in San Diego next year. The Independence is scheduled to arrive by the end of 2011. The frigate Jarrett was decommissioned earlier this year, and the amphibious warship Cleveland will be decommissioned in September 2011.